One day left!

We're leaving for Russia tomorrow and I'm so excited! For the last five days I have been at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The other 14 teachers and I who are going on the trip have been listening to lectures and sharing ideas. It's been great! (Believe it or not, when you get older, you might enjoy lectures, too!) The other teachers are a lot of fun. We are from all over the country, and we're all different ages and teach different grades. It's going to be great to travel with them. We all have a good sense of humor and we've all traveled a bit already, so we can help each other out, which is really important when you are traveling. Tomorrow we have to catch a bus at 3:30 in the morning to get to the airport. From Illinois we are flying to Atlanta, and then from Atlanta to Moscow. Once we reach Moscow, we have a van ride of a few hours to get to Vladimir, the city where we will be staying for the first 2 weeks. It's going to be a lot of traveling, and really exhausting, but it will definitely be worth it. In just a few minutes we teachers are going out to dinner - our last American meal for a month! I hope that I'll be able to write again on Tuesday or Wednesday!